WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s “The State of Wireline Communications” Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet hearing: Thank you, Chairman Pryor and Senator Wicker, and thank you to our witnesses for being with […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s “Cruise Industry Oversight: Recent Incidents Show Need for Stronger Focus on Consumer Protection” full committee hearing: Thank you Mr. Chairman for holding this hearing today. Also, thank you to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s “E-Rate 2.0: Connecting Every Child to the Transformative Power of Technology” full committee hearing: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing. And, thank you to our witnesses for […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s “From the Lab Bench to the Courtroom: Advancing the Science and Standards of Forensics” hearing: Thank you, Chairman Rockefeller, for holding this hearing to examine the state of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s full committee hearing on the nomination of Thomas Wheeler to be the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission: Thank you, Chairman Rockefeller. Mr. Wheeler, thank you for your interest […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, issued the following statement on the announced business meeting on Monday, June 10th, for the consideration of the nominations of Anthony Foxx for Secretary of Transportation and Penny Pritzker for Secretary of Commerce: “I appreciate Mayor […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s Communications, Technology, and the Internet Subcommittee hearing on the State of Wireless Communications: Thank you Chairman Pryor and Ranking Member Wicker for holding this hearing. Whether it is a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s Secretary of Commerce confirmation hearing for Penny Pritzker: Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing on the nomination of Penny Pritzker to be the next Secretary of Commerce. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s Secretary of Transportation confirmation hearing for Anthony R. Foxx: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing today. This hearing gives our Committee the opportunity to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released the following statement after meeting with Secretary of Commerce nominee Penny Pritzker and Secretary of Transportation nominee Anthony Foxx today in his office: “I would like to thank both nominees for taking the time to […]